Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
A RETURN GIFT at the banquet should be a Do-It-Yourself kit on how to set up a power plant without land. Some have land, but await environment clearance. If they have environment clearance, PILs can get it revoked. Those with land don’t have fuel because the coal mines can’t be …
How much of the benefits of economic growth accrue directly to farmers and workers who lose their livelihoods when agricultural land is taken over for development? If handled properly, the Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill 2011 offers an opportunity for equitably addressing the interests of diverse sections affected …
The Common Service Centre scheme aims to establish nearly three lakh rural internet kiosks across India. A recent evaluation study, however, found poor demand among users and delayed roll-out of government-to-consumer services, causing losses and attrition among private operators of the scheme. There is space, therefore, for greater engineering of …
This article presents an investigation into strategies employed by privately-owned companies to gain access to land for resource extraction in Jharkhand where much of the land being put under the shovel is inalienable adivasi or tribal land and deedless commons. It concludes that although policy reforms are welcome, cosmetic changes …
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) make-up the overwhelming majority (approximately 98%) of all enterprises in most countries, including Bhutan. The MSME policy of the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB) has been developed for the following main reasons: To ensure that there is a comprehensive policy for MSME development, given …
This report highlights promising examples of successful collaborations already under way, such as India’s National Solar Mission; Kenya’s efforts to design an investment-grade renewable energy strategy; the South Africa Water Partners Network; and the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania. These examples offer innovative financing mechanisms and new models for …
The global economic crisis of 2008-2009 led to a sharp reduction of growth worldwide with an increase in millions of poor persons. The World Bank Group responded with an unprecedented expansion of support, especially to middle income countries. This new study, the second part of a two-phase evaluation of the …
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and supply agreements in the agricultural sector have a significant role to play to promote agricultural climate change mitigation and decrease pressure on the earth’s land and climate. Private sector engagement can also promote food security and positively affect the livelihoods of smallholder agricultural producers in …
This report seeks to highlight the issues of financing climate policies in developing countries and the place of NAMA within the solutions that are currently under discussion. The first part of this report will examine the question of the definition and monitoring of quantitative international climate financing commitments. The second …
The air transport sector is enjoying an optimistic growth rate while at the same time eliciting growing concern, due to its environmental impact and its vulnerability with respect to energy security. These issues have put the sector at the forefront of the tide in achieving energy efficiency. Efforts have been …
Extension of metro up to Nedumbassery under consideration Executing the Kochi Metro Rail project as a Centre-State joint venture scheme has numerous advantages over implementing it as a public-private partnership project. Elaborating on the disadvantages of including private stakeholders in the construction, experts in the mass-rapid transportation sector, who did …
The AMRI crime is an example of how public safety is being repeatedly compromised. More specifically, it demonstrated the dismal trend of healthcare services being offered by “super specialty care” in public-private partnerships, which has raised the cost of medical treatment to exorbitant levels and deprived the poor of even …
In an ambitious plan aiming at almost doubling Bihar’s agricultural output in five years between 2012 and 2017, the Nitish Kumar-led government has unveiled a roadmap to raise and spend `1,52,511 crore in various farming sectors with active help from the private sector. Approving Mr Kumar’s dream of a grand …
The State Health Department has decided to give wider publicity to the provision of free treatment available for economically weaker section category patients at various private hospitals in the city. The exercise is being undertaken to ensure that EWS category patients are able to reap the full benefits of the …
Private equity (PE) investment in the Indian renewable energy space surged ahead in 2011, with both deal volumes and average deal values increasing manifold over the previous years.
This Handbook focuses on the role that Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) can play in promoting Renewable Energy (RE) in developing countries. The concept of NAMAs was developed in the negotiations carried out under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to denote planned, voluntary greenhouse gas (GHG) …
